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422 – Mort Circuit
Posted on July 10, 2019 by Dawn
CLINT: If you've never heard about the circuit judges of the Old West, they make for some fascinating reading. The so-called "Hanging Judges" were often among their number and the peculiarities of the frontier made for some very irregular justice. Sometimes the law of a given township or territory was obliged to hold an accused criminal in lock-up for months before the judge came back around to oversee a trial. Sometimes they'd be busted loose during that time, either by friends helping them get free or an angry mob that felt they'd waited long enough and the nearest stout tree was going to do just fine as a substitute for habeus corpus. Nowadays in the United States we still have Circuit Courts but they're nothing like what they used to be. Which is probably for the best. SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON looms once again! We will be away from the helm for the next two Wednesdays to take care of prep, presentation, and recovery, though there will likely be blogs and there will definitely be a map posted next week for the benefit of those of you who might be trying to find our spot in the airplane hangar of overstimulation that is the SDCC exhibit floor. In any case, mark your calendars for story resumption on July 31st, and if you happen to be going to SDCC look for Dawn's art in the Art Show (offsite so no badge needed!) and/or find our Lab Reject Studios booth in the Small Press Pavilion at table N7! Oh, and our Kickstarter was funded successfully! Thank you to everyone who pledged, and for that matter any of you who've supported us these many years, even if just through word-of-mouth or encouraging commentary. The Volume 2 collection is a go!

4 thoughts on “422 – Mort Circuit”

  1. ConcordBob

    The concept of “sick” vs “healthy” zombies is fascinating. Can’t wait to see more of the docs.

    Good explanation of the 40mm Grenade launcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRb2iFkwDC4

    So glad the Kickstarter was completed!

  2. Mattexian

    I live in southeast Texas, close enough driving time to Canton, home of Canton’s First Monday Trade Days, held the weekend before the first Monday of the month, a holdover from when folks would gather and swap goods/livestock while waiting for the circuit judge to arrive. I also grew up in the Methodist church, which has its own frontier history of circuit rider pastors, traveling between towns to preach and serve communion on Sundays. A remnant of that is that some churches still have communion only one Sunday per month, and in some cases it’s second, third, or fourth Sunday. (Most, if they follow that tradition, have standardized to the First Sunday, but others say, “Third Sunday was good enuff for my great-grandpa, and I ain’t changin’ it!”)

  3. Honzinator

    Even the Supreme Court’s Justices used to ride Circuit!
    On a related note, there were a series of articles in this year’s WSJ about mob justice error rates in Latin American mob killings. There are some horrible stories, but the error rates were, according to some who studied them, less than one in ten. “Natural justice” and all that was the background inspiration for “natural rights” theorists.
    Finally, I agree with ConcordBob – sick zombies? Or are we just seeing how physiological knowledge I helpful in placing the deadbolts?

  4. Clint

    Neat additions, folks! I hadn’t heard about the pastors but that would make sense, too, for a community that was too small and remote to have its own permanent man of the cloth. Also makes sense why burial rites were considered pretty informal and could be conducted by a trail boss or whomever else was willing (as we saw with Suzie way back in Episode 2).

    As for sick zombies, well, we’ll be getting to that when we return! 😀

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